Words From The Master - 02 May 2008

There are no miracles

At one time or another we all experience the phenomenon of precognition. We feel some one is about to call us, and sure enough, the person calls.

You are watching TV and suddenly you feel that the character you’re watching is about to say something, and sure enough she obliges. You are about to have dinner, the door bell chimes, and you know who is at the door; sure enough, it's the old schoolmate you haven't seen in years.

I find that in my discourses often over 40 per cent of the audience responds positively when I ask if they had experienced a similar phenomenon at some point of their lives. When this happens, most of the time we brush it off saying that it’s a coincidence. When this happens regularly we attach the tag 'gifted' to the person – similar to those who see auras and sense the vibrational energy of people and places.

When the magnitude of the experience is far greater we no longer term it a coincidence. Someone predicts disasters rightly time and again, and forecasts deaths. Others heal people given up as lost cases by doctors. Some produce substances out of thin air. We then call them miracles.

What we see as coincidences or miracles, depending on the degree of unexpectedness of the incident, are those where we do not see the causal linkage between these incidents and what we understand to be scientific laws. Anything that is not supported by what is termed as ‘science’ is either barbaric or a miracle.

There are no miracles in life. It is just that we do not yet understand the laws that govern occurrence of such incidents which seem to defy ‘scientific’ laws. Once we understand that this universe supports laws that go beyond the ‘scientific’ laws that have been so far discovered by humans, we start understanding the cause and effect linkages behind many of these inexplicable happenings and start appreciating the mysteries of our Universe. Astrophysicists talk now about the parallel universe. They have discovered that each time a star system dies as a black hole another star system is born in a Big Bang somewhere else in the universe. Every action produces a reaction.

Chaos theory now says that action and reaction do not need to be proportionate. There is no linearity in nature. A butterfly fluttering its wings in China causes a tornado in Mexico! This is science, not imagination. Matter and energy were totally different entities till Einstein established their linkage. Even after Einstein, it was either matter or energy, never both in the same time and space. It is only recently that the principle of ‘singularity’ that allows matter and energy to exist simultaneously in a common time and space framework has been understood. ‘Singularity’ is the common universal platform the Universal Consciousness that we call Brahman. Making contact with Brahman is not impossible, once you know how. With thoughts crowding our mind, all that we normally do is to flit from one zone to another, from regrets to speculation, with no time to ground ourselves in the present. However, once we allow ourselves to settle in the here and now, in the present, thoughts gradually disappear. When thoughts disappear there is an expansion of our ability to expand in time and space, which allows us to traverse past, present and future simultaneously. Once we are the present miracles become common place, and we do know that they are no longer miracles but a natural flow of the universe.